Reclaiming travel
By: Ilan Stavans and Joshua Ellison
Contributors: Ellison, Joshua, 1978-
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
ISBN-13: 9780822358695
Subjects: Voyages and travels; Travel; Tourism; Travel writing
Description: Ilan Stavans and Joshua Ellison's Reclaiming Travel is a provocative meditation on the meaning of travel in the twenty-first century. Eschewing tourism, Stavans and Ellison urge for a rethinking of contemporary travel in order to return it to its roots as a tool for self-discovery and transformation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Restlessness; title: Why we travel; title: The motion of myth; title: Inward voyage; title: The endless atlas; title: The cosmos and the city; title: How we travel; title: The serious business of leisure; title: Transported; title: Traveling outside the frame; title: The industry of fake experience; title: Home is where.